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Aloi, Marta; Poyago-Theotoky, Joanna; Tournemaine, … - 2018

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...

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The persistent effects of place-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015

Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...

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The political geography of cities

Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...

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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic control

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity

Achten, Sandra; Lessmann, Christian - 2019

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...

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What's in a name? : initial geography and German urban development

Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023

Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...

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On the optimal design of place-based policies : a structural evaluation of EU regional transfers

Blouri, Yashar; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2017

We quantify general equilibrium effects of place-based policies in a multi-region framework with mobility, trade and agglomeration economies. Using detailed data on EU transfers, we infer the local effects of different transfer types on productivity, income and transportation cost. Based on...

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Measuring the stringency of land-use regulation : the case of China's building-height limits

Brueckner, Jan K.; Fu, Shihe; Gu, Yizhen; Zhang, Junfu - 2016

-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that …

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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other … workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that "Chinese …

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Workers beneath the floodgates : the impact of low-wage import competition and worker's adjustment

Utar, Hâle - 2016

textile and clothing products in conjunction with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …

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